TOM BECKER’s latest photography project centers on the county fairs of northwest Iowa. He lives in Orange City, Iowa.

CHRIS BURSK lives in Langhorne Manor, Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books of poetry, including The Improbable Swervings of Atoms (University of Pittsburgh Press). When he’s not teaching or writing poetry, he spends much of his time chasing his grandchildren.

MICHELLE CACHO-NEGRETE lives in Wells, Maine, where she is relishing the brief break between spring’s black flies and summer’s mosquitoes. Her work has appeared in Sierra and Psychotherapy Networker, and she teaches writing both in person and online.

JAMES CARROLL has been taking photographs for forty years. He lives in New York City.

WILLIAM CARTER calls himself “a professional photographer hoping to become an amateur.” He lives in Los Altos Hills, California.

GLORIA BAKER FEINSTEIN is the author of Among the Ashes and Convergence (both Yellow Bird Press). She lives in Kansas City, Missouri, and has recently become an empty nester.

ANDERS GOLDFARB is a photographer who lives in Brooklyn, New York.

DUNCAN GREEN first discovered his love of photography at YMCA camp when he was eleven. He lives in Olympia, Washington, and is staff photographer for the Washington State House of Representatives.

CARLOS GUSTAVO lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His photographs have been published in Harper's, Elle, and Vogue.

STUART KESTENBAUM is the author of two books of poems, Pilgrimage (Coyote Love Press) and House of Thanksgiving (Deerbrook Editions). He lives in Deer Isle, Maine.

JOHN MALKIN is a journalist and musician whose book The Only Alternative: Christian Nonviolent Peacemakers in America will be published in the spring by New City Press. He lives in Santa Cruz, California, and hosts a weekly radio program on Free Radio Santa Cruz.

GARY MATSON’s photographs have appeared in American Photo and Rolling Stone. He lives in Sunnyside, New York.

Photographer ANNE ARDEN MCDONALD works in other mediums as well, including sculpture, drawing, and art installations. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and recently put together a web exhibit of works by twelve Czech and Slovak photographers.

ANNA KAUFMAN MOON’s photographs have been published in Newsweek, Life, and the New York Times. She lives in Cobleskill, New York, where she grows peas, lettuce, and chives.

KATHERINE L. O’BRIEN is a documentary photographer who began her career photographing her neighborhood on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. She now lives in Buda, Texas, where she is raising a family and focusing her camera on another aspect of American life.

EMILY RAPP’s work has appeared in the Clackamas Literary Review, Story Quarterly, and the Texas Observer. She is currently a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her essay in the April 2005 issue is adapted from her memoir Poster Child, which is forthcoming from Random House in summer 2006.

BRUCE HOLLAND ROGERS teaches fiction writing in the Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA program in Washington State. He lives in Eugene, Oregon.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

PETER SELGIN’s writing has appeared in Best American Essays 2006 (Houghton Mifflin), and he is the author of By Cunning & Craft: Sound Advice and Practical Wisdom for Fiction Writers (Writer’s Digest Books). He leads an annual writing workshop in Italy and lives in the Bronx, New York.

SYBIL SMITH has been published in Dos Passos Review, Nimrod, the Harvard Review, and the MacGuffin. She lives in Norwich, Vermont.

MARK TOWNSEND lives in Brooklyn, New York.

RICHARD WHITTAKER is a photographer who lives in Berkeley, California. He publishes an art magazine called works + conversations.